(Reuters) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as “phoney” and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington eliminating it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The deal settled on Friday marked the 3rd Arab federal government after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to set aside hostilities with Israel in the last two months.
” Pay enough ransom, close your eyes to the crimes versus Palestinians, then you’ll be taken off the so-called ‘terrorism’ blacklist,” the ministry tweeted in English. “Undoubtedly, the list is as phoney as the U.S. fight versus terrorism. Shameful.”
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday he would take Sudan off the list once it had deposited $335 million it had actually vowed to pay in settlement.
Khartoum has actually considering that positioned the funds in a special escrow represent victims of al Qaeda attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in1998
Trump also said the Palestinians “are wishing to do something” but used no proof. Palestinian leaders have actually condemned recent Arab overtures to Israel as a betrayal of their nationalist cause for statehood in Israeli-occupied areas. They have refused to engage with the Trump administration, seeing it as prejudiced in favour of Israel.
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